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Mixed-dimensional elliptic equations exhibiting a hierarchical structure are commonly used to model problems with high aspect ratio inclusions, such as flow in fractured porous media. We derive general abstract estimates based on the theory…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Jhabriel Varela , Elyes Ahmed , Eirik Keilegavlen , Jan Martin Nordbotten , Florin Adrian Radu

The growing demands of the worldwide IT infrastructure stress the need for reduced power consumption, which is addressed in so-called transprecision computing by improving energy efficiency at the expense of precision. For example, reducing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Andrea Borghesi , Giuseppe Tagliavini , Michele Lombardi , Luca Benini , Michela Milano

We give the first approximation algorithm for mixed packing and covering semidefinite programs (SDPs) with polylogarithmic dependence on width. Mixed packing and covering SDPs constitute a fundamental algorithmic primitive with recent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Arun Jambulapati , Yin Tat Lee , Jerry Li , Swati Padmanabhan , Kevin Tian

We present W-cycle multigrid algorithms for the solution of the linear system of equations arising from a wide class of $hp$-version discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of elliptic problems. Starting from a classical framework in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-02 P. F. Antonietti , M. Sarti , M. Verani

The framework of Integral Quadratic Constraints of Lessard et al. (2014) reduces the computation of upper bounds on the convergence rate of several optimization algorithms to semi-definite programming (SDP). Followup work by Nishihara et…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-06 Guilherme França , José Bento

The problem of optimal precision switching for the conjugate gradient (CG) method applied to sparse linear systems is considered. A sparse matrix is defined as an $n\!\times\!n$ matrix with $m\!=\!O(n)$ nonzero entries. The algorithm first…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Alexander V. Prolubnikov

We consider the linear system Ax=b arising from one-dimensional Poisson's equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions, where A is the square matrix with the stencil form [-1 2 -1]. Here we show that a pairwise aggregation-based algebraic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-21 Daeshik Choi

Rounding linear programs using techniques from discrepancy is a recent approach that has been very successful in certain settings. However this method also has some limitations when compared to approaches such as randomized and iterative…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Nikhil Bansal , Viswanath Nagarajan

We introduce a near-linear complexity (geometric and meshless/algebraic) multigrid/multiresolution method for PDEs with rough ($L^\infty$) coefficients with rigorous a-priori accuracy and performance estimates. The method is discovered…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-13 Houman Owhadi

Although mixed precision arithmetic has recently garnered interest for training dense neural networks, many other applications could benefit from the speed-ups and lower storage cost if applied appropriately. The growing interest in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-02 L. Minah Yang , Alyson Fox , Geoffrey Sanders

Multilevel techniques are efficient approaches for solving the large linear systems that arise from discretized partial differential equations and other problems. While geometric multigrid requires detailed knowledge about the underlying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Tareq. U. Zaman , Scott P. MacLachlan , Luke N. Olson , Matt West

The present work develops hybrid multigrid methods for high-order discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of elliptic problems. Fast matrix-free operator evaluation on tensor product elements is used to devise a computationally efficient PDE…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Niklas Fehn , Peter Munch , Wolfgang A. Wall , Martin Kronbichler

We prove sharp wavenumber-explicit error bounds for first- or second-family-N\'ed\'elec-element (a.k.a. edge-element) conforming discretisations, of arbitrary (fixed) order, of the variable-coefficient time-harmonic Maxwell equations posed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Théophile Chaumont-Frelet , Jeffrey Galkowski , Euan A. Spence

We analyze fully implicit and linearly implicit backward difference formula (BDF) methods for quasilinear parabolic equations, without making any assumptions on the growth or decay of the coefficient functions. We combine maximal parabolic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Georgios Akrivis , Buyang Li , Christian Lubich

Renewed interest in mixed-precision algorithms has emerged due to growing data capacity and bandwidth concerns, as well as the advancement of GPUs, which enable significant speedup for low precision arithmetic. In light of this, we propose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-14 Alec Michael Dunton , Alyson Fox

We analyze a weighted Frobenius loss for approximating symmetric positive definite matrices in the context of preconditioning iterative solvers. Unlike the standard Frobenius norm, the weighted loss penalizes error components associated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Vladislav Trifonov , Ivan Oseledets , Ekaterina Muravleva

This paper provides a unified and detailed presentation of root-node style algebraic multigrid (AMG). Algebraic multigrid is a popular and effective iterative method for solving large, sparse linear systems that arise from discretizing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Thomas A. Manteuffel , Luke N. Olson , Jacob B. Schroder , Ben S. Southworth

In this manuscript, we present a collective multigrid algorithm to solve efficiently the large saddle-point systems of equations that typically arise in PDE-constrained optimization under uncertainty, and develop a novel convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-20 Gabriele Ciaramella , Fabio Nobile , Tommaso Vanzan

The GMRES method is used to solve sparse, non-symmetric systems of linear equations arising from many scientific applications. The solver performance within a single node is memory bound, due to the low arithmetic intensity of its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Neil Lindquist , Piotr Luszczek , Jack Dongarra

The multigrid algorithm is an efficient numerical method for solving a variety of elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). The method damps errors at progressively finer grid scales, resulting in faster convergence compared to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-06 Francisco Holguin , GS Sidharth , Gavin Portwood